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What's your social currency?

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Granted, its a general tool, if for example, your audience are a specific subset, say Mom’s, you might know some other things about your audience and how they like to interact, but this is still a great place to start.While this information is not new, its still relevant, so go ahead and check it out. Think about it.

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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

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While most the examples within the book are of enterprise-sized businesses, the mini-case studies of numerous different types of brands ranging from WD-40 to Lunapads (a feminine protection product) to the oft-cited Zappos, Wikibrands proves that no matter the product, engagement can happen with a strong and willing brand.

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Tool Tuesday: SocialOomph

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For example, from SocialOomph, you can also schedule Tweets, even bulk upload them. Some are free, some are part of their paid service. I tried their paid service and I just felt that that overall, the services were clunky and in some cases, redundant to tools I like better. All Rights Reserved.

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Tool Tuesday: PostRank Analytics

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A deceptively simple yet dynamic tool for bloggers which measures what it calls “Engagement Events&# such as a comment, a bookmarked link, or a tweet about a particular post. There is even a feature to add additional pages, great for blog-specific campaigns and funnel analysis and comparing it to Engagement Events.

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6 reasons why social media shouldn’t be a last ditch effort

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Social Media benefits from integration: From email marketing to event marketing to advertising, the ways in which you can make your marketing program stronger using social media is almost limitless. Ultimately, you’re just polishing a turd.

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The Hard Questions of Social Media

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Events and social media go together like two peas in a pod, there are lots of great opportunities for those two to work together. Don’t let your social media program live in the dark and don’t let your other marketing initiatives live without social media. Let it work with the rest of your initiatives.

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The REAL Lesson in the NRA Twitter Post

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Take for example again, the Tweet from Celeb Boutique; I bet it never occurred to them that they would find themselves in the cross-hairs of a national crisis. How will this example change the way your organization uses social media? . But some simple steps would have prevented embarrassment.

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